| lesley153
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"I've been spoken about at one..."
Ooh tell all! |
Reply #2741. May 24 11, 3:09 PM
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Erm... How can I put this without outing myself to any passing Tom, Dick, or academic administrator... The speaker paid me a quite undeserved compliment which took on a life of its own. I was seated a couple of rows behind her on the stage. Facing me in the body of the hall there was a bank of seats full of my colleagues - when she came out with her remark, I could see them heaving with laughter, trying not to let the sound of their giggles out. What she said was very nice, it was just a total shock for her to say it at all, let alone in front of thousands of people - it took me about ten years to live it down, in fact I think I had to leave the profession before it finally died a death, lolol.
Reply #2742. May 24 11, 4:45 PM
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| lesley153
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| You're not outed, but it is an enjoyable image. Was it filmed? {evil grin} |
Reply #2743. May 24 11, 5:01 PM
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flopsymopsy
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You'd better ask Dickie Attenborough, he was there, lolol.
Reply #2744. May 24 11, 5:06 PM
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| lesley153
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| Ooh more name-dropping! Tell us more. |
Reply #2745. May 24 11, 5:18 PM
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flopsymopsy
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I'd definitely end up on the cutting room floor!
But I realise I forgot to drop the best name:
When I was a baby, my mother went for her regular Sunday afternoon walk, taking me with her in my pram. She took a route past a stately home about three or four miles from our house, and pushed the pram down the narrow lane that passed the entrance. She had to stand on the side of the road at one point so that a Rolls Royce could get by but instead of passing, the car came to a halt. The young woman in the back seat leaned out of the window, pointed at my mop of tight blonde curls and said that if she had a daughter she wanted her to have hair like that. Well, her daughter did have curly blonde hair but not nearly as curly as mine! My mother never got over being spoken to by the Princess Elizabeth, who of course is now The Queen.
And of course I have no memory of it whatsoever. :D
Reply #2746. May 24 11, 5:57 PM
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| lesley153
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When sprog was little, the Queen and P Philip came to Bedford, and his school was asked to go to the railway station to greet them. A few years later, P Edward visited the next school he was at, and sprog was in a string quartet playing to greet him. Fast forward to college, and a visit from the Queen in 2007, the college's 100th birthday, and also the year the college broke away from London University, and awarded its own degrees for the first time. This time he was in the college orchestra that played as people came in, with the odd trumpet fanfare.
So he'll be able to tell people that he has met and greeted royalty, and even played for them, but he's never actually spoken to one.
When I was very small indeed, my father was driving about, without a front number plate - it had fallen off - and a policeman stopped him.
"Excuse me, sir: are you the Queen?"
I don't suppose that counts, does it? |
Reply #2747. May 24 11, 6:37 PM
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| lesley153
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This morning Jonathan did the last of his finals exams, this evening he rehearsed for an orchestral concert on Friday, and tomorrow he will have a lie-in. He's still got his project to do - design and build - and a month to do it in.
At the beginning of July, when his London tenancy has expired, he'll be home, and I think I shall pamper him because I think he will need and deserve it.
I was phoning him at eight o'clock every morning for the three weeks of exams. I can stop doing that now. Whoopee! |
Reply #2748. May 25 11, 5:50 PM
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| lesley153
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| Apparently I can't. He'd like me to carry on phoning him, but at nine o'clock. Friendly! |
Reply #2749. May 26 11, 6:16 PM
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| lesley153
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| For as long as possible. :) |
Reply #2751. May 26 11, 8:35 PM
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Jazmee27
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Sounds good :)
Reply #2752. May 27 11, 10:16 AM
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Professer
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wow i seemed to have missed much Lesley, hope his exams have gone well and that his project knocks them dead.
hope you are keeping well is nice and sunny here soon be back to nude net surfing lol room temp is so hot :)
Reply #2753. May 27 11, 11:29 AM
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| lesley153
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'Tis good. But tomorrow he might want a lie-in!
Thanks, Gary, he thinks they've gone reasonably well. The project is loosely connected to racing cars. Petrolhead bliss, I should think.
I can't wait for the sun to come back. The weather recently has been about 18-19C, which makes me happy, but yesterday we had a couple of hailstorms. Not what we expect in May, or want, or deserve. |
Reply #2754. May 27 11, 6:26 PM
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| lesley153
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Oh and I went to the concert this evening. College symphony orchestra playing Gershwin and Prokofiev. Apparently it's his last concert with this orchestra. :(
Uneventful journey there, except as I walked past the LDS Church there were smartly-dressed young men with American accents asking people if they would like to go to a very fine concert inside the church.
Thanks, I'm already going to a concert.
"Where's that?"
College.
"Who's playing?"
College symphony orchestra.
"Ours has got a harp."
My son is playing.
"Aah."
(College has a harp too.)
Uneventful journey home too, till half-way home on the train, which was busy, all the seats were taken and people were standing. I heard a loud human noise from the nearest door, a few human expressions of revulsion, and a great deal of squealing and flapping as a dozen people ran to the far end of the carriage.
Turned out that someone had thrown up and left a six-foot trail of vomit up against the doors. That's one way to clear a carriage! |
Reply #2755. May 27 11, 6:51 PM
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| veronikkamarrz
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OMG! My gag reflex is kicking in...;)
Reply #2756. May 28 11, 11:26 AM
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| lesley153
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Sorry, VM, but it did make the second half of the journey marginally more interesting. The train stopped at every single (aargh) station and people wanted to get in and out at all of them. Just not through that door, they didn't.
Some braver travellers vaulted the vomit, but most of them just went "ugh!" (or "eeeeew!" if they were American or had been watching "Friends"), and shuffled up to the next door.
I once watched someone vomit onto the seat next to him, and another one chuck up into his backpack, but this is the first time I've seen a whole door covered. Impressive. |
Reply #2757. May 28 11, 11:39 AM
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| veronikkamarrz
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What comes immediately to mind is (shudder) slipping, and landing in it! Otherwise, I would be ok...unless the stench was overpowering! Ewww!;)
Reply #2758. May 28 11, 11:43 AM
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Lochalsh
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I witnessed a similar incident, only with diarrhea rather than vomit.
Reply #2759. May 28 11, 11:49 AM
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Lochalsh
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Well, it was more horizontal than vertical. :(
Reply #2760. May 28 11, 11:57 AM
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